While you surely don't have time to read this I wanted to wish you big congrats on the very well deserved direction nom just the same.

Watching your work for many years I still recall your first run at directing all those years ago. That turned out fab as has - greater forces than I have chimmed in *g* this time around - this go around.

You have a good eye as well as an exceptional pen so heres hoping you'll direct more in the future.

As for the forest and the trees...
Perhaps we need to get you a new compass to find your way out into the sunshine once again?

Best of luck with the Emmys!

Rarely is a book, or especially a television show, both entertaining and truly poignant. Breaking Bad is both.

The writing, directing and acting in season 1 layed down such a solid foundation of character, plot and setting that it would certainly be hard to see the forest for the trees when writing a season 2.

Of course the dialog is crammed with so much ironic goodieness it is difficult to begin describing it. For example, when Skyler receives the tiara from her slightly too hyper / slightly too skinny sister Marie, Hank looks at his beer and asks Walt if he has anything stronger. That is just good writing.

The characters are written with great depth and possibilty of interaction. I just wonder how much forshadowing there has been. I can see so many possibilities of forshadowing, such as Marie having "smoked her fair share of pot in college", her occasional hyperactivity and her video statement to her yet born niece to look at the video of her because she will look exactly the same in the future. It begs a "10 years of meth" type transformation due to the super junk Walt is synthesizing. If you are wondering what I am talking about google "10 years of meth".

In the big picture, Walt has done it all. He cooked all the meth, he killed both bad guys, he stole the equipment, he lied to everyone, he blew things up, he made the only deals that count.

I could go on and on about character interactions and such because Breaking Bad has so much to it. Maybe we will see if any of this will benefit Walt in the end.

I am just happy to hear there will be season 2!!

Breaking Bad has captured the hearts and interest of millions. The first season kept you on the edge of your seat from week to week and had you coming bad and wanting more. The casting was done with great knowledge and professionalism. I myself believe that all involved deserves an applause... I run a Breaking Bad fan site and the first question from all is when will season two begin. That alone tells you that from the creator to the stage hands has the viewers wanting more from the team of Breaking Bad...

To the writers -- keep the grey area. Yes, the big picture is that Walt did it all. He did break bad. But as the title suggests, this is an ongoing process; he is breaking bad, present tense. He is the good guy and bad guy wrapped into one (love the name choices for characters, btw! He's White, like a good cowboy and Walt, like Disney, she's the "sky" or his dream or angel, "Junior" is an extension of him, uses crutches, Jesse Pinkman, boy or girl first name, newborn, or "picked" man, or in the "pink" of life, etc.!) Aren't we all our own good/bad struggle in life? His dilemma is the classic one presented to older adolescents in literature and class discussions designed to get them thinking about morality, i.e., is a good person who does a bad thing for a good reason still a good person? What adults realize, however, is that we do not operate in a vacuum, that change is the only constant, and that none of us can see the long term consequences of even our smallest actions. And at the crux of the matter is that Walt cares only about one side of the consequences -- his family's well-being without him in future. Of course, some could put the spin that it's wrong to "glorify" the drug trade and violence so vividly portrayed on the show (I do not actually like to watch those parts -- my imagination is plenty good enough, thanks, so I turn my head until plot returns), but it really is just the opposite; it shows why it's bad, on so many levels. And this plot can only work because of Walt and family's middle class standing; he knows how to lie and knows why he won't be suspected. I mean, "Walt" is my next-door neighbor! So, that jig will have to be up, by bits and pieces, unless you go TVland and keep it a secret always. Once others know, will they in turn keep it a secret? Blackmail? Tell? Reject? Smile? And how much farther will he go before he crosses his own inner line, the one he already redrew when breaking bad? Is there ANY time for him to reflect, or will it continue to be reaction and response?
Too bad I've moved to area that does not get amc. I guess I'll have to figure out how to see it from computer-based processes, because I don't want to miss the gripping portrayals in chemically unstable Breaking Bad!

Love the show. It is smart. Resonates. It is about failure and success, achievement, emasculation. And with great characters and storylines. Thanks.

But what is with those videos? They hurt as I didn't recognize the characters and missed the smart writing. Very simplistic. Felt like a different show I wouldn't want to watch.

Careful with your brand. Its worth a lot. Protect it.